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Biology Professor Investigates Polar Bear Paw Design Principles
Using the solutions observed in nature to address global challenges in health, medicine and materials innovation is at the heart of research by BioInspired 黑料不打烊.聽Austin Garner, assistant professor of biology and member of BioInspired, specializes in functional morphology鈥攕tudying the form…
A&S Alumni Making a Difference at Moderna
When Amy Rabideau 鈥10 started working at Moderna in 2015, she never imagined that she would someday help fight one of the world鈥檚 deadliest viruses. Fresh out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she had received a Ph.D. in…
Researcher Awarded NSF Future Manufacturing Seed Grant for Scale-Up Manufacturing of Therapeutic Cell Products
More new therapeutic treatments for various diseases could be moved into clinical trials鈥攁nd potentially faster into mainstream medical use鈥攊f scientists could find ways to manufacture exponentially higher quantities of the stem cell components needed for medical testing. Spearheading work to…
Research Shows Prominent Structural Racism in STEM Industry
Nicole Fonger, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and School of Education, was quoted in the Lifewire article 鈥淭ech Education Is Racist鈥擧ere’s How to Fix It, Experts Say.鈥 The article highlights research that shows the prominence of…
黑料不打烊 Student Chosen as First Micron Intern Hire From 黑料不打烊 Veteran Community
Savion Pollard 鈥25 joined the U.S. Navy as a 21-year-old looking to be part of something bigger than himself and inspire others. Pollard served for eight years, working as a nuclear electronics technician on nuclear submarines and training other sailors;…
Jason Webb G’18 Receives Virtual Reality Grant from Unity and Meta Immersive Learning
Jason Webb G 鈥18, 聽an instructional analyst with ITS Online Learning Services, adjunct professor in the Newhouse School and instructor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, recently received a 鈥淐reate with VR鈥 grant from Unity and Meta Immersive…
As U.S. Digital Corps Fellow, Alumna Does Work That Serves the Public Interest
Alumna Chizobam Nwagwu 鈥18 (neuroscience/policy studies) is currently serving in the inaugural cohort of U.S. Digital Corps (USDC) Fellows. The U.S. Digital Corps launched last year to recruit early-career technologists to work on priority projects in five skill tracks: software…
NSF, Department of Energy Grants Enable Physicists to Continue Cutting-Edge Research in Neutrino Discovery
You may not know it, but every second 100 billion extremely tiny, invisible subatomic particles called neutrinos pass through every square centimeter of your hand. Physicist Mitch Soderberg says the reason you didn鈥檛 notice is because they rarely interact with…
Physicist Awarded NSF Grant to Continue Gravitational Wave Detector Research
In March 2023, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is set to begin its fourth yearlong observational period. Scientists on site in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, have spent the last two years on hardware and software upgrades to…
Yousr Dhaouadi: Ph.D. Candidate, GSO President Willing to 鈥楩ollow Every Opportunity’
Yousr Dhaouadi is a Ph.D. chemical engineering candidate in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science who plans to complete her program in summer 2023. She鈥檚 currently finishing a second term as…